Archive | September, 2011

MEXICO CITY, Sep 30, 2011 (IPS) – Despite the growing participation of women in forestry projects in Mexico, the national strategy for the United Nations-led REDD+ forest plan in this country lacks a gender focus. Continue Reading

BUENOS AIRES, Sep 28, 2011 (Tierramérica) – To save the planet from climate change and the loss of biodiversity, we must leave capitalism behind and seek out a less consumerist, more socially just system, insists French environmental journalist Hervé Kempf. Continue Reading

Rousbeh Legatis interviews PATRICK BOND, political economist at the University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Development Studies in Durban, South Africa

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 28 (IPS) – In order for global climate change policies and efforts to progress, intense local activism and countries most adversely affected by climate change must play a leading role. Continue Reading

OUAGADOUGOU, Sep 27 (IPS) – This year Fatimata Koama and her associates received more than half a million CFA francs as a reward for planting – and looking after – 1,200 trees in their small corner of Burkina Faso. Continue Reading

By Kristin Palitza speaks to TOSI MPANU-MPANU, chair of the Africa Group of Negotiators for Climate Change

BAMAKO, Sep 26 (IPS) – Africa will have to present a strong position at the United Nations climate change conference later this year to ensure the continent will receive the financing to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Continue Reading

MONTREAL, Canada, Sep 13 (IPS) – With its coffers largely dry and its management being contested, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) remains a hot topic among African civil society. Ahead of the upcoming international climate change meeting in South Africa, African ministers have already met to set their agenda and civil society is looking to do the same. Continue Reading

DAKAR, Sep 20 (IPS) – There are dusty barrels carefully positioned outside many of the family compounds in the Léona neighbourhood of Kaolack, a city of 20,000 in western Senegal: signs of success for a project to introduce the use of biogas as a source of fuel. Amadou Faye, whose family herds cows, goats and sheep as well as growing groundnuts on the side, is among the early adopters. Continue Reading